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Whitmer signs legislation allowing Michigan pharmacists to prescribe birth control

The Hill

Whitmer signed a bundle of other bills aimed at improving maternal health and increasing reproductive health care access in the state. Those bills include a piece of legislation making it easier to donate breast milk and another expanding maternal mental health services to postpartum women.

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Back to school: Nurse seeks training to help bridge mental health care gap in rural NC

NC Health News

Statewide provider shortage To help address the nations shortage of mental health providers, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has cited a need for more than half a million additional psychiatric mental health nurses to reach merely adequate access to mental health and substance use disorder care.

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New funding aims to expand mental health services in New Jersey schools

News Medical Health Sciences

million grant to increase the number and diversity of highly trained school counselors to help fill the gap in mental health services in New Jersey high-need school districts. Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education (GSE) has received a $3.3

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Transforming women’s mental health services through co-research with survivors of intimate partner violence

Nature Mental Health

Nature Mental Health, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s44220-024-00379-y Engaging survivors of intimate partner violence in research brings valuable perspectives that can drive meaningful improvements in mental health services.

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Clinical psychology training in India needs central body, streamlining to avoid dilution of professional standards: study

The Hindu

The existence of multiple training paths for the same licensure category allows less rigorous routes to licensure, undermining the quality of training and professionalism in the field, ultimately affecting mental health services, one of the authors of the study said

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Clinical psychology training in India needs central body, streamlining to avoid dilution of professional standards: study

The Hindu

The existence of multiple training paths for the same licensure category allows less rigorous routes to licensure, undermining the quality of training and professionalism in the field, ultimately affecting mental health services, one of the authors of the study said

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Migrant children face challenges accessing school-based mental health services

News Medical Health Sciences

School-based mental health support should be more accessible for migrant children, a new study says.